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Dec 22, 2005, 02:59 AM
 
a new teaser trailer is out for this movie.

i believe it takes place before the Mayan people were conquered. so all the people would be indigenous (certainly no white men). he didn't use any (or very few) professional actors either.

so you've watched the teaser trailer, right?
ok good.

notice anything? ok, go to 1:46 in the trailer. notice anything....now?

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Dec 22, 2005, 03:00 AM
 
Damn funny.

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Dec 22, 2005, 03:34 AM
 
The movie looks good. Must be nice to be able to do what ever the hell you want to do.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 03:44 AM
 
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Dec 22, 2005, 05:16 AM
 
That's funny. It's like something right out of "Fight Club", when Tyler Durden inserts a frame of a porno film into a kids movie.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 05:23 AM
 
Holy crap.

I watched this before you posted this. And even going back and re-watching I cant see it, I can find the frame, but I just cant see it when in motion.

And just recently on my latest viewing of Fight Club I noticed a totally new subliminal Tyler that I never noticed before. Makes me wonder what kind of subliminal **** I am missing all the time…

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Dec 22, 2005, 05:34 AM
 
ahaha good find.

You have to really nit pick around at 1:46 to catch that frame it's extremely quick.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 06:13 AM
 
Yeah. The guys on the right seem bored senseless!

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Dec 22, 2005, 07:57 AM
 
Originally Posted by demograph68
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Dec 22, 2005, 08:36 AM
 
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Dec 22, 2005, 09:44 AM
 
That chick with the stick through her nose is kinda hawt...
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 10:21 AM
 
Where's the Christian message in that movie?
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 10:22 AM
 
Originally Posted by Demonhood
he didn't use any (or very few) professional actors. so no white men.
Isn't that kind of a racist statement?
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 10:53 AM
 
I predict this will be the dance craze that shakes the world.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 11:07 AM
 
Originally Posted by TETENAL
Isn't that kind of a racist statement?
I think he meant how Hollywood has a tendency to use Anglos (with heavy makeup) to represent indigenous people (ie. Daniel Day Lewis in "Last of the Mohicans").
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Dec 22, 2005, 11:07 AM
 
Originally Posted by demograph68
"Going for the kaber toss record, number 7, Jesus Christ!"

Edit; Christ, now I see Gibson...
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Dec 22, 2005, 11:13 AM
 
I liked the trailer, thank you Mel Gibson.

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Dec 22, 2005, 11:27 AM
 
I get it the trailer. The natives deserved to be conquered and robbed by Catholic conquistadors because they didn't have Jesus and they sacrificed criminals to their gods. Go on Mel, bash us on the head again. Next we will have ----Holocaust : What really happened---- by Award Winning Megalomaniac Mel Gibson.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 12:37 PM
 
I may be wrong, but I think I see another oddity in the same frame! Isn't that monkey a baboon? Look at the snout and the closely spaced nostrils that point down, not out, like most new world monkeys. Also, those teeth are huge! Yea, I'm pretty sure that's a baboon. New world monkeys don't usually have teeth like that. I guess Mel didn't think the organ grinder monkeys of South America were ferocious enough so he had to import one from Africa.
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Dec 22, 2005, 12:56 PM
 
It takes place before the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America.
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Dec 22, 2005, 01:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by MacNStein
I think he meant how Hollywood has a tendency to use Anglos (with heavy makeup) to represent indigenous people (ie. Daniel Day Lewis in "Last of the Mohicans").
Huh? I know that movie took quite a bit of liberty with Cooper's work, but Hawkeye (Nathaniel Bumpo) was never an Indian in either book or movie. He was Chingachgook's adopted son. Pure white boy.

Sorry, James Fenimore Cooper lived in and wrote The Pathfinder in my town, so growing up his books were required reading
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Dec 22, 2005, 01:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by OwlBoy
Holy crap.

And just recently on my latest viewing of Fight Club I noticed a totally new subliminal Tyler that I never noticed before. Makes me wonder what kind of subliminal **** I am missing all the time…

-Owl
There are a whole bunch of subliminal images of Tyler in "Fight Club". Like when Jack starts to get bored with the support groups, and he's walking down the street after one of their meetings. You can see him in the background, it's a slight flash. Or when Jack goes to the doctor to get some sleeping pills, he can be seen next to the doctor in the hallway. There are too many to list, but you might want to go to imdb.com, and check out the trivia section for the movie.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 01:18 PM
 
Originally Posted by ThinkInsane
Huh? I know that movie took quite a bit of liberty with Cooper's work, but Hawkeye (Nathaniel Bumpo) was never an Indian in either book or movie. He was Chingachgook's adopted son. Pure white boy.

Sorry, James Fenimore Cooper lived in and wrote The Pathfinder in my town, so growing up his books were required reading
Sorry, had been a very long time since I'd seen the movie (and never read the book). It's not my genre of literature.
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Dec 22, 2005, 02:16 PM
 
Originally Posted by TETENAL
Where's the Christian message in that movie?

They chose to leave out the euro trash christian savages out of this one.
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Dec 22, 2005, 03:41 PM
 
D'hood, did you discover it on your own?
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 04:20 PM
 
the trailer was linked on aint it cool news along with a note that mel gibson appeared in it. i thought this unlikely since A) i didn't remember seeing him and B) the movie is about ancient Mayan people. so i looked thru it frame by frame until i found it. then i snapped the screenshots. the rest is, well, this thread.
     
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Dec 22, 2005, 04:22 PM
 
k, I was wondering because I think it is almost impossible to spot him when you don't do a frame by frame search… Thanks for sharing.
     
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Dec 23, 2005, 07:20 AM
 
Originally Posted by RAILhead
It takes place before the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America.
Railhead, please learn to understand the words you read.
     
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Dec 23, 2005, 01:55 PM
 
I liked the music very much. And yah, Gibby looked like he just got yanked out of his spider hole!
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Dec 23, 2005, 05:44 PM
 
Mel Gibson looks like Saddam Hussein.
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Apr 21, 2006, 04:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by Demonhood
notice anything? ok, go to 1:46 in the trailer. notice anything....now?
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Am I blind or did they take mel out of the trailer?

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Apr 21, 2006, 09:24 PM
 
Still there in the 480p trailer. I'm not checking the rest.
     
   
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